Getting your wallets and Ghostnodes ready for POS

A wallet update will be mandatory after the release of Ghost Vault and Staking. You can update both your desktop wallet as well as your Ghostnode ahead of time to ensure a smooth transition.

This short tutorial will cover the following:

• Updating your local wallet (Linux, Windows, Mac).
• Updating your Ghostnode.

Updating your local wallet

Windows

• Download nix_core_windows_2_0_0.zip from here.
• Create a backup of your wallet.dat to be safe. It is usually located in %appdata%\nix.
• Replace your existing nix-qt.exe with the one from the downloaded archive.
• Done. You are now ready for the consensus changes.

Mac

• Download nix_core_macos_2_0_0.zip from here.
• Create a backup of your wallet.dat to be safe. It’s usually located in ~/Library/Application Support/nix.
• Delete your existing nix-qt application and install the new nix-qt.dmg from the downloaded archive.
• Done. You are now ready for the consensus changes.

Linux

You have two options for Linux. You can compile the wallet from source or just use a pre-build binary.

Option 1:

• Clone or download https://github.com/NixPlatform/NixCore and enter the folder.
• Create a backup of your wallet.dat to be safe. It is usually located in ~/.nix/wallets.
• Execute the following commands in order:

./autogen.sh 
./configure 
make CFLAGS=-fPIC 
sudo make install

• Should you encounter any problems with dependencies, please follow this to resolve that.
• After waiting for the compilation to finish, you are done.
• You can start the wallet by typing nix-qt in your terminal.

Option 2 (faster):

• Download nix_core_x86_64_linux_gnu.zip from here.
• Create a backup of your wallet.dat to be safe. It is usually located in ~/.nix/wallets.
• Extract nix-qt to a folder of your choice and open a terminal there.
• Make the file executable by using sudo chmod +x nix-qt.
• Start the wallet by typing ./nix-qt.

Updating your Ghostnode

There were initially two ways to set up a Ghostnode:

• Using Crypto Sharks’ easy-install script.
• Compiling the wallet from source.

This guide will provide help for both.

Updating a node installed with the script

1. Connect to your VPS via ssh.
2. Optional: Remove the old update script if present: rm nix_update.sh
3. Download the update script: wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cryptosharks131/Ghostnode/master/nix_update.sh
4. Update the node: bash nix_update.sh. If not root: sudo bash nix_update.sh.
5. Restart the node via your v2.0.0 wallet. You can monitor the node status via nix-cli ghostnode status.

Updating a node that you compiled yourself

1. Connect to your VPS via ssh.
2. Stop the daemon: nix-cli stop.
3. Remove the NixCore folder: sudo rm -r NixCore.
4. Download the latest source: git clone https://github.com/NixPlatform/NixCore.git && cd NixCore.
5. Compile the new wallet by using the following commands in order:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 
./autogen.sh 
./configure --without-gui 
make CFLAGS=-fPIC 
sudo make install

1. Start the daemon: nixd
2. Restart the node via your v2.0.0 wallet. You can monitor the node status via nix-cli ghostnode status.

Alternatively, you can wipe your VPS and re-build the node using Crypto Sharks’ script (recommended for beginners).

Originally published at nixplatform.io on September 7, 2018.